July 2011 - Museum Photo Challenge

[scouse smurf]

Due to the slight change of rules, which can be found here (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?49225-Monthly-Themed-Challenge-Rules), I'm taking advantage and choosing the theme for July's challenge.

Since the new Museum is opening this month I thought it would be appropriate to choose the theme of Museum Photos. Whether you post photos taken within any of the museums or photos of theme, that's upto you.

Photos can be added upto and including the 30th July and the winner will be selected the following day. So get posting your photos and good luck

[az_gila]

Liverpool museums or any museums?

[scouse smurf]

Well, preferably Merseyside but we can't exclude our overseas members so if you want to post other museums then I'm sure no-one will mind :)

[az_gila]

...has three locations, and one is in Louisville, Kentucky. Overseas but full of English stuff...:)

At the entrance you are greeted by a "beefeater" in front of some armour captured from the Spanish..

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Here are two horsemen from different eras...

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I guess the Louisville location may have have something to do with the queen racing her horses at the Kentucky Derby...:)

It was a well laid out interesting museum and quite a surprise when we accidently stumbled on it last year.

[Spike]

MOO

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/6007/cowy.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/840/cowy.jpg/)

SEA

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7932/dangeroussea5568.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/135/dangeroussea5568.jpg/)

OM

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/3324/meditating.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/meditating.jpg/)

[lindylou]

Ha,ha! :D blinkin' brilliant !! :handclap:

[Norm NZ]

Seeing as it's open to all, I'd like to include this pic of Auckland Museum, which also serves as a war memorial.

[essexscouse]

MOO

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/6007/cowy.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/840/cowy.jpg/)

SEA




http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7932/dangeroussea5568.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/135/dangeroussea5568.jpg/)

OM

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/3324/meditating.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/meditating.jpg/)

love it love it right up my stoopid street of humour

[Ronijayne]

Well, preferably Merseyside but we can't exclude our overseas members so if you want to post other museums then I'm sure no-one will mind :)

Good, I live right by the Met.

[gregs dad]

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Wirral Museum

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Tate museum in Victoria Hall

[Ged]

Great photies Joe. I'm looking forward to the opening next Tuesday, it's creeping up on us.

[gregs dad]

Got to get my suit out of the pawnshop yet Ged.

[scouse smurf]

2 weeks left :)

[Pinhani]

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Prescot Museum

[lenka]

Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture
http://www.andrewlogan.com/museum/

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[chasevans]

Wirral Museum



Tate museum in Victoria Hall

Outstanding, Gregs Dad.
Cheers,
Chas

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[ItsaZappathing]

Great photies Joe. I'm looking forward to the opening next Tuesday, it's creeping up on us.

Yep, like you I was really looking forward to it. However, today I got to see it and was I so dissapointed. It's like a mix and match of things. The staircase is awful. The whole layout is awful. Nothing on the Boxer Dom Volante and nothing on the Italian community???
So to me the the outside is as bad as the inside. The Ford Anglia was high up and couldn't really be looked at.
It just doesn't do much for the adults, the kids may like it but ....
I don't think it's a place to visit again and again. So from me it's a big thumbs down.

[ChrisGeorge]

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Original National Museum (now the Arts and Sciences Building), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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Smithsonian Castle in the distance

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Entrance to the Smithsonian Castle with the Washington Monument in the distance


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Smithsonian Castle, April 20, 2007. The flag was at half mast for those who died in the shootings at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, earlier in the week where 33 died including the gunman.

[az_gila]

.....
It just doesn't do much for the adults, the kids may like it but ....

I don't think it's a place to visit again and again. So from me it's a big thumbs down.

I think comes from the museum curators conferences...:) I've seen this happen in many museums in the US, lots of fake "kids stuff" (almost play areas) while real artifacts are hidden and not on display - usually implemented during a remodel.

The worse offender I saw was the NASA museum in Houston - lots of play areas and not much on display from the moon landings.

I admit I am a bit biased since I worked on equipment that was left behind on the moon by Apollo 17, but I did expect the NASA museum of all places to have real Apollo stuff on display.

Sounds like the trend is going world-wide...:PDT_Xtremez_12:

[scouse smurf]

I went to the world museum after that was done up and was so disappointed in the place. It was definitely aimed towards kids. I remember commenting to my cousin about the high open balconies being a definite jumping risk too.

I'm gonna wait till this one is totally open before I venture in.

Chris, is that the place were the gunman was picking people off from the tower ?

[Ged]

Zaps, Dom Volante is mentioned on an audio in the Wonderous Place gallery by the Stadium mock up - I heard it yesterday. There's so much interactive stuff that you'd never to hear and see everything in one go.

I agree Smurfy that after visiting the Museum in William Brown Street as a kid very often in the 70s, the new lay out did nothing for me. They think they have to do fancy curved aquariums etc, but the old dark corridor one of old was far more atmospheric but if you were a kid going now and knew no different, it would probably seem a bit more futuristic.

[Cagsy]

Merseyside Maritime Museum

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[John Doh]

Don't you think it is possible that some of us, e.g. Ged, Smurfy, or indeed myself, were not exactly typical kids way back then... and were certainly very different from those of today. Few young people ever had that magical experience of which you speak... weren't we very much the exceptions? Isn't it right that today's museums should try and cater for a rather wider audience... and deliberately try to get away from the old dry and dusty image that museums had for many, rightly or wrongly, in the past? If all those millions are being spent, shouldn't it really be a requirement anyway?

[az_gila]

Don't you think it is possible that some of us, e.g. Ged, Smurfy, or indeed myself, were not exactly typical kids way back then... and were certainly very different from those of today. Few young people ever had that magical experience of which you speak... weren't we very much the exceptions? Isn't it right that today's museums should try and cater for a rather wider audience... and deliberately try to get away from the old dry and dusty image that museums had for many, rightly or wrongly, in the past? If all those millions are being spent, shouldn't it really be a requirement anyway?

I agree that kids should be catered for. It just that in some museums of a historical note that the kids "play areas" have become more Diney than actual history. If you are a history museum, then show the historic stuff.

There are non-history museums that cater very well to kids - the main ones I can think of are science museums, lots of stuff for kids to touch and interact with, and actually learn...:)

If we loose sight of history via the artifacts in our museums, then real history will be gone for ever. Might as well turn them into kids amusement parks.

History and kids can (and should) co-exist, but the teaching element of history should be emphasized in these museums.

Perhaps the question boils down to "What is a Museum?"

[ChrisGeorge]

I think comes from the museum curators conferences...:) I've seen this happen in many museums in the US, lots of fake "kids stuff" (almost play areas) while real artifacts are hidden and not on display - usually implemented during a remodel.

The worse offender I saw was the NASA museum in Houston - lots of play areas and not much on display from the moon landings.

I admit I am a bit biased since I worked on equipment that was left behind on the moon by Apollo 17, but I did expect the NASA museum of all places to have real Apollo stuff on display.

Sounds like the trend is going world-wide...:PDT_Xtremez_12:

I am afraid the tendency is to "dumb down" to what the museum people think the public wants these days. Of course 3-D blow-em up movies with special effects don't help.... folk get used to such things as entertainment so the museum curators think they have to jazz up their exhibits similarly.

Smurf, the Virginia Tech massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre) on April 16, 2007 was when the Korean-American gunman Seung-Hui Cho went on a rampage shooting fellow students. Not from a tower. It's still listed as the worst U.S. mass shooting by a single gunman. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 25 others before committing suicide.

[scouse smurf]

Just over a day left to add your photos to this challenge

[John Doh]

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These birds are all claiming to be the original inspiration for the Liver Bird.

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Just some Chinese Junk...

[Leon]

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[az_gila]

From the old Liverpool museum in 2005.

How they used to navigate before LORAN and GPS - the chronometer was king - and Liverpool made and sold clocks for the navigators. The address of So. Castle St. is on the face.

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[scouse smurf]

The winner of this month's challenge, as chosen by Cadfael is Leon's photo below



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Well done to Leon and better luck next time to everyone else

[Spike]

Can not believe I never won. I tried so hard :Smiliz_Kingz_PDT_13

Well done Leon :handclap::handclap::handclap:

[Leon]

Thank you everyone for choosing me!